Why we fought : America's wars in film and history
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- 2008
- Topics
- War films, Films de guerre, Film, Krieg, Film, Krieg, Kriegsfilm, Bewaffneter Konflikt, Krieg, Motiv (Film), Kulturelle Identität, Film
- Publisher
- Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky
- Collection
- inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks
- Contributor
- Internet Archive
- Language
- English
Includes bibliographical references (p. [566]-574) and index
Includes filmography: p. [529]-565
pt. I: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: revolution, conquest, and union. The American revolution on the screen: Drums along the Mohawk and The patriot / John E. O'Connor ; Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson ; Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates ; Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. Edgerton ; "It's what people say we're fighting for": representing the lost cause in Cold mountain / Robert M. Myers -- pt. II: The twentieth century: total war. The great war viewed from the 1920s: The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg ; Technology and "reel patriotism" in American film advertising of the World War I era / James Latham ; Culture wars and the local screen: the reception of westfront 1918 and All quiet on the western front in one German city / David Imhoof ; The peace, isolationist, and anti-interventionist movements and interwar Hollywood / John Whiteclay Chambers II ; The B movie goes to war in Hitler, beast of Berlin / Cynthia J. Miller ; Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. Scott ; On telling the truth about war: World War II and Hollywood's moral fiction, 1945-1956 / Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli ; James Jones, Columbia Pictures, and the historical confrontations of From here to eternity / J.E. Smyth ; Hollywood's D-Day from the perspective of the 1960s and 1990s: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan / Robert Brent Toplin -- pt. III: Cold War and insurgency: the paradox of limited wars. Cold War Berlin in the movies: from The big lift to The promise / Thomas W. Maulucci Jr ; Invaders of the Cold War: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the earth stood still / Susan A. George ; Using popular culture to study the Vietnam War: perils and possibilities / Peter C. Rollins ; Fragments of war: Oliver Stone's Platoon / Lawrence W. Lichty, Raymond L. Carroll ; The quiet American: Graham Greene's Vietnam novel through the lenses of two eras / William S. Bushnell -- pt. IV: The twentieth-century: terrorism and asymmetrical conflicts. Operation restore honor in Black hawk down / John Shelton Lawrence, John G. McGarrahan ; Documentary and the Iraq War: a new genre for new realities / Jeffrey Chown ; Jessica Lynch and the regeneration of American identity post 9/11 / Stacy Takacs ; Representing the unrepresentable: 9/11 on film and television / James Kendrick
Includes filmography: p. [529]-565
pt. I: The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: revolution, conquest, and union. The American revolution on the screen: Drums along the Mohawk and The patriot / John E. O'Connor ; Reprinting the legend: the Alamo on film / Frank Thompson ; Assessing television's version of history: the Mexican-American war and the KERA documentary series / James Yates ; Ken Burns's rebirth of a nation: The civil war as made-for-television history / Gary R. Edgerton ; "It's what people say we're fighting for": representing the lost cause in Cold mountain / Robert M. Myers -- pt. II: The twentieth century: total war. The great war viewed from the 1920s: The big parade / Michael T. Isenberg ; Technology and "reel patriotism" in American film advertising of the World War I era / James Latham ; Culture wars and the local screen: the reception of westfront 1918 and All quiet on the western front in one German city / David Imhoof ; The peace, isolationist, and anti-interventionist movements and interwar Hollywood / John Whiteclay Chambers II ; The B movie goes to war in Hitler, beast of Berlin / Cynthia J. Miller ; Why we fight and Projections of America: Frank Capra, Robert Riskin, and the making of World War II propaganda / Ian S. Scott ; On telling the truth about war: World War II and Hollywood's moral fiction, 1945-1956 / Frank J. Wetta, Martin A. Novelli ; James Jones, Columbia Pictures, and the historical confrontations of From here to eternity / J.E. Smyth ; Hollywood's D-Day from the perspective of the 1960s and 1990s: The longest day and Saving Private Ryan / Robert Brent Toplin -- pt. III: Cold War and insurgency: the paradox of limited wars. Cold War Berlin in the movies: from The big lift to The promise / Thomas W. Maulucci Jr ; Invaders of the Cold War: generic disruptions and shifting gender roles in The day the earth stood still / Susan A. George ; Using popular culture to study the Vietnam War: perils and possibilities / Peter C. Rollins ; Fragments of war: Oliver Stone's Platoon / Lawrence W. Lichty, Raymond L. Carroll ; The quiet American: Graham Greene's Vietnam novel through the lenses of two eras / William S. Bushnell -- pt. IV: The twentieth-century: terrorism and asymmetrical conflicts. Operation restore honor in Black hawk down / John Shelton Lawrence, John G. McGarrahan ; Documentary and the Iraq War: a new genre for new realities / Jeffrey Chown ; Jessica Lynch and the regeneration of American identity post 9/11 / Stacy Takacs ; Representing the unrepresentable: 9/11 on film and television / James Kendrick
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